thanks for your reply Dag. I've made some search using google about 'gate A20' and openbsd with evo, but nothing that I've found very useful yet. I found one page http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/A20.html describing A20, even if I don't have a clue what all that mean.
I'am most frustrated about why the kernel get transfered but doesn't even start initializing. (it was just here: >>OpenBSD/i386 PXEBOOT 1.02 booting tftp:/bsd 4807268- it feezed, remember?) I've read my kernel config if there was any option related to gate A20, but my search didn't find any matches. I know that I once tried booting a linux kernel and it did boot without freezing. I've "boot" in my /tftp/etc/boot.conf so there's no delay during startup since it's a non working usb KB at that bootprompt state. I don't think that it's my problem. But what I do think might cause my kernel freeze is missing support in kernel. Even if Geode GX1 is supposed to be supported which I think it is, but just not in my case :/ Anyone who has further ideas about how to disable gate A20 with generic kernel? /bkw On 10/3/05, Dag Sverre Seljebotn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First, thanks for a well made t20 evo+linux doc. > > here is a post I dropped to a obsd mailinglist. I don't know if you can > > help me? > > [Writing this so that it can be posted to the list - I'm trying, but I > don't know if my mail will be accepted when I am not subscribing to it, > so can you please forward it if it doesn't get through?] > > Only thing I can think of is the gate A20 - I have absolutely no > knowledge about the OBSD kernel, but if it tries to set gate A20 (google > for more info) then it will halt. > > Might be lots of other stuff as well I guess, but the gate A20 was the > only one I encountered when trying to load GRUB on it (see how to patch > GRUB at http://fredtun.no/ltsp). Using GRUB to load Linux then worked > flawlessly. > > So if OBSD, or (more likely) your PXE loader program, does any gate A20 > switching on boot, just patch it to remove the switching (there is no > gate A20 on the EVO, it behaves as though it is always on). > > // Dag Sverre > > -- ###################### BKW - Bachman Kharazmi bahkha AT gmail DOT com uin: #24089491 SWEDEN ######################
